Adenot. — Traumatic Paralysis by Compression of the Sacral plexus during Labor. (Americ. Journ. Of Obstetries etc., 1894, I / V, p. 570; Nouv. Arch. D'Obst. Et de Gyn., 1893, XI). Traumatic paralysis due to compression of the sacral nerve plexus during childbirth

Abstract

This form of paralysis occurs even more often with hemiplegia, paraplegia, and personal paralysis due to kidney damage, depending on pregnancy. Some of them deny such an origin of paralysis (Churchill); others, without denying their existence, attribute the paralysis not to the pressure of the head, but to the forceps. The erroneousness of the last opinion is proved by the case of Bianchi, in which a woman in labor complained of an onset of her legs 4 hours before the imposition of forceps. Burns and Jaccoud observed similar paralysis and post-normal childbirth.